Arnoldsche published Bizarre Beauty, a book about William Harper, last year. AJF timed the release of this review of it to coincide with and celebrate an unrelated exhibition, Precious Grotesqueries: The Jewels of William Harper. That show will run October 23–December 12, 2025, at Les Enluminures.[1] Glenn Adamson and Martha J. Fleischman (eds.), Bizarre Beauty: […]
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Paint: Rachelle Thiewes El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX, US May 30–September 21, 2025 Rachelle Thiewes’s new show, Paint, is something of a blockbuster. Thiewes has established a distinguished career over many years. Her several bodies of work surely merit a retrospective. This show, however, is comprised entirely of recent work. A whole
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The Fascination of Jewellery: 7000 Years of Jewellery Art at the MAKK New permanent exhibition Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Cologne, Germany A man at a display case is laughing out loud. There’s no one else around. I probably look puzzled, so he points at a bangle made of a curtain rail and moonstones. His
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This substantive, educational, and enjoyable exhibition celebrates an innovative maker renowned for his technical and aesthetic contributions to studio jewelry Curated by Rebecca Elliot, it issued from the Mint Museum’s acquisition of a large amount of Ebendorf’s jewelry from the collectors Ron Porter and Joe Price, as well as the Robert W. Ebendorf Archive The
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1984 May 20–July 27, 2024 Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, Portugal This summer, the second Lisbon International Biennial of Contemporary Jewellery celebrated 50 years of democracy in Portugal, focusing on freedom, power, and democracy. The official program presented Teresa Milheiro’s solo show, 1984, at the Zé dos Bois (ZDB) gallery. This exhibition served as a rebellion, reflecting on how
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OUT of the Jewelry Box Opened April 20, 2024. Ongoing Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, US In the second-floor gallery of the Museum of and Arts and Design (MAD), a long, painted pride flag stretches across the wall-mounted display cases, and six pedestals in the center of the room are colored in
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Céline Robin and Robert Mazlo, Sacrés Outils! Paris: Robert Mazlo Endowment Fund for Art and Contemporary Art Jewellery, 2022. Sacrés Outils! is one of the most curious books I’ve ever held. It sketches out jewelry tools of the past and highlights contemporary makers who make tool-related work. Also, it holds a list of institutions that teach jewelry.
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Damian Skinner and Keith Lewis, Dead Souls: Desire and Memory in the Jewelry of Keith Lewis. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2023. When I first learned a monograph would be published on the work of Keith Lewis, I immediately wanted to review it. Lewis’s work was brought up frequently in my early years of studying, whether about the work
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Still Point brought together only five necklaces and three brooches by Zoë Veness in a boutique experience at Gallery Funaki Close observation of the artist’s extraordinary folded-paper technique was possible The objects seemed to defy their materiality and have a theatricality or “stage presence” Still Point March 20–April 20, 2024 Gallery Funaki, Melbourne, Australia On
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Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams closes July 14, 2024 The 130+ pieces in this Joyce J. Scott retrospective span 50 years, from the 70s to the present Works on display include jewelry, sculptures, performances and recordings, and garments and textiles They focus on different facets of Scott’s practice, including heritage and
Vikki Tobak, Ice Cold: A Hip-Hop Jewelry History. Cologne: Taschen, 2022. This book is an excellent example of how jewelry and identity go hand in hand A related show, Ice Cold: An Exhibition Of Hip-Hop Jewelry, guest-curated by the book’s author, opened last week at the American Museum of Natural History, in NYC It’s striking
Bernhard Schobinger — Annelies Štrba April 20–June 29, 2024 Antonella Villanova Galleria, Florence, Italy From the moment I left Antonella Villanova Gallery, I told myself that I shouldn’t wait too long to put in order, and on paper, my thoughts and the multitude of stimuli I received during my visit and intense chat with Bernhard
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